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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. They’d researched topics including solar energy and composting, acquiring skills in project management and finance as they developed their business plans. Sign up here. This one was real life.”

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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. We are here to engage them in the kinds of high-impact discovery learning that public research universities can offer at scale; the kinds of experiences that can change the trajectory of their lives and the lives of their families.

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Ancient Human Habitation: New Discoveries from East Timor’s Laili Rock Shelter

Anthropology.net

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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PROOF POINTS: AI essay grading is already as ‘good as an overburdened’ teacher, but researchers say it needs more work

The Hechinger Report

Early research is finding that the new artificial intelligence of large language models, also known as generative AI, is approaching the accuracy of a human in scoring essays and is likely to become even better soon. In one batch of 943 essays, ChatGPT was within a point of the human grader 89 percent of the time.

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Claudia Goldin, Women & Work: The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel)

ACRE

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.